Could Your Scrubs be Making Your Patients Sick?
July 19, 2010 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1.7 million health care-associated infections occur every year in hospitals across the United States, and that 99,000 of the patients who become infected will die. Not only do these infections cost many people their lives, each infection costs the hospital, on average, about $30,000. For these reasons, health care-acquired infections, and their prevention, have the attention of the medical community.
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Nurses, Communication and Patient Safety
July 19, 2010 - Communication problems can affect everything from business and politics to military operations and personal relationships. And in health care facilities, poor communication between nurses and other medical practitioners can be especially perilous, leading not only to distrust and resentment among cohorts, but also to grave errors influencing patient recovery time and even their mortality.
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